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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-16 11:38:18)
I was interested to learn that the medical community stopped separating out suicide from depression "with cause" (like your life materially sucks) from clinical depression because it's basically just impossible to do that in aggregate it turns out. sometimes people's life sucks because they have depression and can't fix their life, and sometimes they have big external problems in their life that gives them depression and it's just impossible to figure out objectively which is which. also you can point at objective environmental decline and it can be completely disconnected from suicide rates. like people in wealthy countries sometimes do it a lot more than people in abject poverty. not clear how much this is a measurement problem but the consensus seems to be that it is not.

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7666@7666@comp.lain.la (2026-08-16 11:43:03)
@sun i'm guessing "you're sad for no reason" and "you're sad for a reason" was too subjective to be medically consistent and likely had the same treatment anyway